From an Indian perspective, it's tough viewing to see other teams going to Australia and winning against this team. Takes getting used to after all those years of watching Warne and McGrath roll over visiting teams unfailingly. They'll probably improve enough to beat India by the time we get to tour there.

Expectations have been pretty slow to adjust to the team's dip in quality and England's rise in quality. As a result the team seems a bit.. scared of defeat. Like losing to England in Australia would be the WORST THING EVER. While England are treating the tour as a huge opportunity.

Mind the post-mortems though, I distinctly remember a similar discussion asking what was inherently wrong in English cricket and inherently good about Australian cricket on the eve of the final day of the Cardiff test.

I think that can be judged as a spark and nothing more, as it was very much the new Australia then - Johnson, Hughes, North, Siddle, etc. The period of dominance had ended when Aus' great names were leaving, IMO it's the moment Cameron White missed the pitch in India.

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